Finding Bluesky more intuitive than mastodon: https://bsky.app/profile/vianeylb.bsky.social

Continuing the attempt at finding my happy place of Bayesian stats, cats, sharks. And now + astronomy!

I remember what @aspuru mentioned during my new faculty orientation — take care of the people in your group.

So, I’ve spent a lot of the past year learning about how grad/postdoc funding actually works. The rules, limitations, non-taxed vs taxed portions of funding, etc. I talk to my students about how they’re living with their funding packages & made plans for what they’ll earn over the next few years.

I could’ve spent the time writing papers but fuck it, this is more important. #academia

Announcing the brand new 'Ecological Statistics Summer Club' at the University of Toronto: https://www.vleosbarajas.com/home/ecological-statistics-summer-club Our first meeting is today!

Effectively an excuse for statistics students at the University of Toronto to work on analyzing cool shark data and work with the Shark Lab: https://www.csulb.edu/shark-lab. 

A big reason to love working at a Canadian university — it’s the first week of April and also the last week of teaching for the semester 🙌🏽

So ready for my nearly 5 month summer break…so I can spend a lot of time lovingly working on research 👩🏽‍💻 #ThirdYearProfLife